Start right of Silverback on underclings before shuffling up slopey shelf. Long move to ear then negotiate the pod. From here either move up before sharp left traverse (13a), or follow original line going direct through series of slopey crimps and dishes (13b). Finish on Silverback.

Word

Word Up

Hooligans

Funky Boss

Southern Comfort

Watermelon Poptart

Abandon

Booger

Showboat

Cast Away

Pod Right

Totem Pole

Cro Magnon

Man Show

Silverman

So Show

Southern Comfort Right

Silverback

Cool moves on large loose blocks down low lead to an awkard crux move with core tension pulls getting you to the top.   Holds get bigger the higher you run. 

  Classic

The classic 13a line in the cave. 

  Jut out the cave using the longest line, involving a series of jug pulling. Utilize your heels and whatever else have you to keep from gassing out on this one. Tough move up top for the redpoint crux.

Climb Word and at the finish jug cop a rest then continue up right to a distant perma and finish on Southern Comfort with edges to slots.

Short, powerful, explosive, awesome. 

  Begin down low with a rugged boulder problem then rest. Blow through another sequence of tough moves to a wild throw and cruise to the top.

From the Little River Canyon Guidebook: "Stand on an obvious obelisk to reach the start hold. Use bad feet to fire to jugs. Pull past the roof using an undercling hueco and pods to make a big move. After a big reach to a sloper, break left, then head to the anchors."

As per the description for SoCo Right:

 One of the region's more sought after hard lines. Unrelentingly hard, steep, and sick.

 Begin as for Silverback but immediately trend left into the only part of the concave that is properly horizontal. Climb a v5/6 sequence through reinforced crimp plates, usually skipping the 4th draw, to gain the ledge, good rock, and the only good rest on the route. From here, a roundabout v5/6 boulder problem through crimps, huecos, pinches, and another skipped draw get you to a poor rest in a sharp flake. Try to get here fresh, and you've officially entered the ring with this monster. Leaving the flake, a v4 involving a pumpy match, a wicked pinch (well, not "man show" wicked") and another skipped draw or two deposit you at the last crux. If you are not substantially stronger than this route, prepare to get to know these moves very intimately. After clipping the second to last draw, begin a hard sequence going left into the crux of Word Up. Small holds culminate in a deadpoint requiring a frustrating degree of precision. Stick this, and you are rewarded with a rest before tackling the last easy section to the anchors. Top out for full value!

If the grades at LRC scare you, you hate yourself, you have most of a trad rack, and you want to pretend you're on an actual multi-pitch route, then this is for you. This route was sent out of whimsy and was not worth the effort.

 P1- Start on ledge, trend slight right on nice iron band crimps, top out mantle onto the chossy ledge with nice crimps.

 Set up anchor in crack system. Takes .75-2 cams. 

 P2- traverse left a few feet onto small ledges then up into a boulder style right then left Gaston, final move is an undercling crimp on the small boulder on top

 Set up anchor on smaller trees on top. 

 Rap off the least dead tree from the rim. You will rap into trees. 

 This line is hot, chossy, garbage. Okay to practice multi-pitch on, but you will deal with briars, limbs, and wet cracks and hate yourself afterwards.

Mega jugs start to positive crimpy roof boulder to large jug rest. Long move into medium crimps boulder up to UFO hold. Fight pump on one last easier boulder through a couple sloped edges to the anchor.

Nice warmup for the harder climbing at The Concave. Cruiser face climbing with a quick crux.

A fun, power-endurance challenge that gets progressively harder with each move to an iron cross crux at 2/3 height just before better holds.  

  Flowy moves on sidepulls and edges lead to a tough go-again reach over a small roof at mid-height to a decent pocket.  Make a few more powerful moves with difficult feet to a good sidepull where you can grab a quick shake.  Reach way left to a small edge, adjust your feet, and fire for a good edge.  Rest up, do a final big move to a jug, and follow giant holds to the top.

Climb Man Show but before doing pinch boulder continue leftward traverse and finish on Abandon. Harder than Abandon if you don't use the shelf knee bar and go direct, same difficulty if you use it and back track. Clip the draw before the Man Show crux, and then the draw at the middle Abandon boulder. Abandon shelf rest clip is optional, but interferes with some movement; consider slinging an alpine.I named this route after not finding what it might be otherwise called, but I'm sure it has been done before. Worth while linkup of two great routes.

Same as Pod but after fourth bolt trend right and finish on 720. 

Boulderer's route. Straightforward opening sequence leads to long move to jug. Move up through mostly decent holds to good rest at last bolt. From here figure out your path to the distant crimp under the anchors (crux).

Cro Magnon, named after the missing link (up) is a great route which climbs lots of the best stone in the Concave.  Start on Silverback and do all the hard climbing of that route before heading left after the 5th(?) bolt.  This is the same leftward traverse for Silverman, depositing you under the finishing crux of the Man Show.  Clip the Man Show bolt, grab one small hold and make a big move to the UFO hold of Abandon.  The route finishes with the upper redpoint crux of Abandon.   

  Adding this to clear up the confusing description in the  new guidebook.  For what it's worth, I thought this route was harder than Silverman and made for a good endurance trainer.

Start as you would for Silverback, but trend left before the crux move (3'd bolt).  

  From here a sequence of rugged pulling on some slopey dishes/huecos gets you to the chains

Climb Silverback, go left at break and finish on Man Show.

Do the opening boulder of Soco and abandon then instead of going left or straight up to do either of those, move to the right and do the top half of Man show.  Just another 5.13 link up to fluff up that score card.

One of the region's more sought after hard lines. Unrelentingly hard, steep, and sick.

 Begin as for Silverback but immediately trend left into the only part of the concave that is properly horizontal. Climb a v5/6 sequence through reinforced crimp plates, usually skipping the 4th draw, to gain the ledge, good rock, and the only good rest on the route. From here, a roundabout v5/6 boulder problem through crimps, huecos, pinches, and another skipped draw get you to a poor rest in a sharp flake. Try to get here fresh, and you've officially entered the ring with this monster. Leaving the flake, a v4 involving a pumpy match, a wicked pinch (well, not "man show" wicked") and another skipped draw or two deposit you at the last crux. If you are not substantially stronger than this route, prepare to get to know these moves very intimately. Rather than moving left into the redpoint crux of Word Up (Southern Comfort OG finish), make a big cross up and right off of an undercling. Match beside this, and sort out your method for getting to the jug looming above (HINT: power). This is the make or break move, the full sequence clocking in around v4/5, but feeling much tougher on point! Once stuck, rest easily and move left through some 5.10 to share anchors with Word Up. Easy and worthy top out!

One of the crown jewels of Little River Canyon 

  A large protruding roof jutting out of the cliff offers steep thug-nificent climbing on some of the sweetest stone you've ever laid your hands on.  

  A jungle gym for the bone crushers.

Description

Protection

Routes in The Concave